Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-25
THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY.


Krupp is extending his gun factory to fill
large orders for the German government
A Russian chemist has perfected method
by which petroleua can be soldiiied into
bricks for fuel. Ss
A Boston locomotive works is advertising
for mechanics Work is rushing at the Taun-
ton Locomotive works.
The iron and steel workers are divided on
the advisabiity of demanding sharp ad-
vance in the WAGES schedule.
A dozen strikes and lockouts have been
quickly settled in western Pennsylvania
through the services OF an arbitrator.
Four thousand tons of old horse-shoes are
to be exported to China, where they will be
melted up into sabre blades and knives.
The cotton mills of the New England states
are ali sold up at full prices. Large orders
are being booked for China, Africa and
South America.
A recent purchase of 1000 acres of min.
eral lands, which is only one of many, was
recently made in Virginia, on which furnaces
and mills will be erected.
The Maine woolen manufacturers want the
factory laws so modified as to allow them to
run their factories overtime three or four
times year when the rush comes.
The southern people are chasing northern
enterprise in their eagerness to invest in in
dustral enterprises, and the municipal
authorities vie with each other in extending
inducements in sites. freedom from taxation,
etc.
Gas fuel is gaining ground. A locomotive
works and rolling mill at Patterson, y. D.,
will use it. Jersey City manufacturers are
preparing to Introduce it, and in several
being carefully studied.
The house builders will be very busily en-
gagged from April 1. A number of large
building operations will be begun then.
Large contracts are being placed for mate
rial but the uncertainty of freight rates Is
checking great deal of business.
Persons interested in the building up of
the south are flooding certain localities of the
north with immigration literature and with
good results. Colonies have recently gone
from the Cumberland valley to North
Carolina, where new industries are spring
Ing up.
The list of employers who are sharing
profits with their employees Is increasing: The
Springfield Foundry company Is the latest
neapOlis flour man, has inaugurated it with
satisfactory results. Five or six other large
concerns have tried it.
A scheme is on foot to utilize the pressure
Of the fresh water wells Of Florida for manu-
depth of $50 feet and in many wells there is
pressure of fourteen pounds to the square
inch. The theory entertained is-the
greater the well the greater the pressure.
The advocates of technichal education
forces for united effort. The Industrial
| associatiOnsOf New York, which has been de-
| voting attention to this matter, declares 1t to
| be its conclusion that industrial training
| ton.
A S5O0,000 cotton factory is to be built at
| Fort Smith, Ark.;a 100000 one at Char
lOtte, n, c.; one at Airy. N. G.: one at Cleve-
land. Tenn; one at Athens, besides numer;;
GUS expansions in the way of machinery and
additions. A cooperative manufacturing
company will erect SlOO,OOO mill at George
town, Tex An immense cotton factory Is
| to be erected at Columbus. Miss.
| Architects speak often of the rage for very
high buildings when there is no urgent need
| for them. Western cities with plenty of
ground are copying after New York city,
where high buildings are necessity. Chi
cago will have several nine, ten and eleven
Is to be erected in Minneapolis. These high
structures give wider scope to the genius of
| ambitious architects 60
Richmond, Va, is becoming an industrial
on Belle ss eS glass S0ss works IS on eRs tRs
cooperative plan will tlrn out 200 pounds
per day. A shoe factory will be started on a
large scale. The AlbehIarle Paper company
| Will mdhc paper Oll aukupt 1. IA ldiBo UIlch
works will be built, TO make bricks for
northern markets out of Chesterfield clay.
American bridge builders are teaching the
rest of the engineering world how to con-
struct bridges OF great length, strain, endur.
projected at this date than ever In the history
the Hudson six across the Mississippi, two
tn the bridge
multitude of smaller bridges. The bridge
works are consequently Overrun with work,
and bridge iron makers are unable to accept
ing works are projected, and an expansion
OF mill capacity Is going on.
Iron and steel makers and manufacturers
who use these products as raw material will
as a rule, be taxed to their fullest capacity
between now and midsummer. in every
branch of industry enlargements are in pro-
gress Foundries are expanding their limits
and facilities; car works must increase theiI
along quietly. Makers of all kinds Of heavy
machinery have very large contracts on hand
One concern Is preparing TO make wrought
iron pipe twenty-fOur inches in diameter,